11 papers
Scalar damping in cosmological phase transitions
Andreas Ekstedt, Thomas Konstandin, Jorinde van de Vis
We outline how to calculate the scalar damping term during a cosmological phase transition from kinetic theory. We determine the scalar damping rate from top quarks and weak gauge…
Detecting Gravitational-Wave Anisotropies with Simulation-Based Inference
Anna-Malin Lemke, Andrea Mitridate, Thomas Konstandin +2
Over the last five years, multiple Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have reported mounting evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies. Meas…
A positive definite formulation of vacuum decay with reduced symmetry
José R. Espinosa, Ryusuke Jinno, Thomas Konstandin +2
The Euclidean bounce for vacuum decay enjoys an symmetry that is lost in the presence of impurities than can catalyze the decay. We present a formulation for the calculation…
Slow-down of expanding bubbles in the early Universe
Nabeen Bhusal, Simone Blasi, Thomas Konstandin +2
We study slow-down effects for bubbles formed in a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) focusing on deflagrations and hybrids, where the bubble wall is preceded by a shoc…
Tuning the violins: dark sector phase transition models for the PTA signal
Torsten Bringmann, Thomas Konstandin, Jonas Matuszak +2
First-order phase transitions in a dark sector have been invoked as an intriguing possibility to explain the observed stochastic gravitational wave background at nanohertz frequenc…
Prospects and Limitations of PTAs Anisotropy Searches -- The Frequentist Case
Thomas Konstandin, Anna-Malin Lemke, Andrea Mitridate +1
Recent findings from several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations point to the existence of a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies. A key next step towa…